Admiral William H. McRaven
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Admiral William H. McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, renowned for overseeing high-profile special operations missions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William H. McRaven | 5 |
| Admiral William H. McRaven canonical | 1 |
| McRaven | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1281650 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Admiral William H. McRaven Context triple: [Operation Neptune Spear, commandedBy, Admiral William H. McRaven]
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Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the early 1980s.
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Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III was a senior U.S. Navy officer best known for leading the American invasion of Grenada in 1983 and for his influential roles in modernizing naval warfare and joint operations.
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Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan
Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan was a highly respected U.S. Navy officer of World War II who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership and sacrifice during the early Pacific naval campaigns.
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Admiral David E. Jeremiah
Admiral David E. Jeremiah was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served in senior military leadership roles, including as a top advisor on national defense strategy and operations.
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Oliver Hazard Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry was a U.S. naval officer famed for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Admiral William H. McRaven Target entity description: Admiral William H. McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, renowned for overseeing high-profile special operations missions.
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A.
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the early 1980s.
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B.
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III
Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III was a senior U.S. Navy officer best known for leading the American invasion of Grenada in 1983 and for his influential roles in modernizing naval warfare and joint operations.
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C.
Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan
Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan was a highly respected U.S. Navy officer of World War II who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his leadership and sacrifice during the early Pacific naval campaigns.
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D.
Admiral David E. Jeremiah
Admiral David E. Jeremiah was a United States Navy four-star admiral who served in senior military leadership roles, including as a top advisor on national defense strategy and operations.
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E.
Oliver Hazard Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry was a U.S. naval officer famed for his decisive victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Admiral William H. McRaven Description of subject: Admiral William H. McRaven is a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral and former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, renowned for overseeing high-profile special operations missions.
Referenced by (7)
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